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' ^^^^^ z^^/^^ * ' BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 3. 1901. VOTJTMR Y*YVTi___i?n ? "Honest Injim Cross my Heart !" -,i>?8#-3@?#?ftB<^-" - That's what the little boys say when they want to im press yon with the fact they are telling the truth. When we talk to yon about this Store-its methods of buying and selling, the saving of money for you on good Clothing--we fe?l that we want to impress upon you the fact more strongly, and like the little boys we feel like say ing, "Honest Injun Cross my Heart !" We sell the kind of~ Clothing, Hats, Shoes and Furnishigs, That give satisfaction every time. When the Goods are not found as represented we cheer fully refund your money. B. 0. Evans & Co, ANDERSON, S. C., The Spot Cash Clothiers Why not Enjoy Riding When You Go ? /i|fp8 4k /? BSft^L r ugh-riding Boggy, but you can enjoy / \ \ ) j j. l? ^nen y?u ri?e^on the winga of the TI?E5/JES. Why not join the many who now enjoy the pleasure given them by using the Rubber Tires. Gall on us and let us show you the advantage of using them Church Street. Opposite Jail. FRANK JOHNSON & CO. Deering Light Draft Ideal Mowers. THE ONLY MOWER made with only two-piece pitman. Has adjustable drag bar and light draft We have the genuine thick centre Ter-ll Heel Sweep that has just the right set. Also, all sizes of the Victor Sweep Wings. If you will come to see as will make it interesting to you and will save you some money. BROCK HARDWARE CO. Anderson, 8. C. E. ?! EVANS/ P?ft&LETO!*, S. C. FULL LINE OF Buist'a Garden Sc??a-r Faints, Oil, Varnishes, Gasoline, Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals, Fancy and Toilet Articles, Perfumery, Toilet Soaps, Sponges, etc. A. supply of Perana, Hanoi in and Laeupia on band ai?" Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded, FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8,1901. The Pension Commissionership scan dal is the event of the week in Wash - iugton. On all sides, denunciations, vigorous or mild, are heard of General Sickles' course in the matter, some of the most severo being uttered hy his comrades of the G. A. R., who seem to be moved rather by the painful ama tenrness of General Sickles in giving tbeni away, than by any regret or dis approbation of the bargain and salo methods which he and the G. A. R. generally-according to the General adopted. One thing is certain as a re sult of the scandal: Thot whether the President did agree to remove Com missioner Evans in return for G. A. R. support; or whether Senator Scott, of West Virginia, made a promise that he would do so without authority from the President; or whether General Sickles does not tell the truth about Senator Scott's assertion (as the latter declares); in any case, President Mc Kinley will not dare to remove Mr. Evans for months or years to come, whatever.he may have intended to do before General Sickles sprang into the arena. As General Sickles was once a warm supporter of Commissioner Evans, some curiosity as to the quarrel between them has Deon aroused. It seems that this resulted over the mean ing of a law on which Mr. Evans and General Sickles were unable to agree and which was referred to Attorney General Griggs for construction. Mr. Griggs decided in favor of Mr. Evans' contention: hence, the quarrel. A letter has been received from Mr. Babcock, of Wisconsin, who is now in. Austria, setting forth his position in the tariff' question. He says: "Many papers have- misrepresented me, and vrithout ground or reason. I have started my idea through the press, and it is this: Where articles can be made cheaper in this country than in any other, and where they have in fact be come articles of export, they should go on the free list if we are to be consist ent with our Republican ideas of pro tection . It makes no difference wheth er they be made by an individnl or a trust. If our tarin is used solely to make prices higher at home than abroad, then there is all tho more rea son why the tariff' should come off'. Can anyone deny this proposition! In order to say something, some of the papers try to make me out a free trader, and claim that I endorse the Demo cratic idea that all trust-made poods should go on the free list. This is simply 'rot,' and 1 write this that you may Know just what my views are." Mr. Babcock would have done better had he explained jost why this is "rot" and in what vay his ideas differ from those that have been urged by the Democrats in the last two Congresses. Even if the Pan-American Congress is partly a failure, owing to the dis pute over arbitration, it is thought probable that be meeting will result m the formation of a permanent court, something like that of The Hague, for the settlement of such international disputes as may be submitted to it with the consent of both parties. Each nation, it is proposed, shall be given the right to nominate a certain number of delegates, who should be jurists of high standing. From the list of all delegates the two nations having claims whioh they desire disposed of will select a court of three or live members. This court will receive the arguments of the two countries and give each an opportunity to makp an swer to the contention of the other. Its decision will be binding. In order to remove any other objection that might exist to the organization of such a court it will be expressly announced at the time the plan is proposed that its acceptance will not compel nations to refer all claims to arbitration, ci al s here believe the organization of such a court wonld be of great Pan American advantage. The United States does not care to force in the matter countries to pay claims, as such action is apt to cause enmity and in the end be embarrassing to the North American Republic, yet it is often ne cessary for it to take strong measures to obtain reparation for outrages suf fered by American citizens because of their nationality. South Carolina purposes to test the constitutionality of the exactions of tho law requiring the State to take ont special licenses both as wholesale and retail liquor dealers on account of its dispensary system. Briefs have been Hied by the Governor and Attorney General of the State with the Commis sioner of Internal Revenue, asking a a refund of taxes previously paid and the remission of all others in the future, it is contended that the prop erty of a State and the means and in strumentalities employed by it to car ry its laws into operation cannot be taxed by the Federal Government, and an opinion of the late Judge Cooley on this question is qnoted. If the claim is rejected, as it probably will be, the matter will be appealed to the courts. Secretary Long has been interviewed at his home in Boston and has asserted that Secretary Hay is not opposed to Senator Lodge in his candidacy for Chairman of tho Senate .Foreign Re lations Committee, despite the fact that Mr. Lodge has publicly announced that he is opposed to Mr. Hay's hand ling of the canal matter, and that be will, if selected, take immediate steps to bring about the abrogation of the Clay ton-Bn! wer treaty which Mr. Hay so.warmly supports and generally undo all that Mr. Hay is seeking to do in the matter. Mr. Long says: "I should say that Secretary Hay would be one of the last men to interfere in such a matter. I do not believe there is any troth in the report whatever. Secre tary Hay is a man who minds his own business on all occasions.. He and Senator Lodge may not agree on all public quoBtiono. They may not have agreed about the terms of the Hay Pauncefoto Treaty, but I do not think for a moment that Mr: Hay would try and prevent Mr. Lodge from getting this y 11*00 i? Mr. lvodgo really wants it. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, as Senator Vest nsed to say, there is little doubt here that the Administration and particularly Secretary Hay, will move heaven and earth to keep Mr. Lodge from attaining his ambition, by inducing either Senator Ca??cm o? Senator Frye, who have the first call in the matter, to insist on receiving the poet. Mrs. Harris Has Another Woman's Boy. Mrs. L. WV Horrie, of Fairtleal, An derson County, had a peculiar expe rience aboard the southbound fast mail Sunday morning. Shortly after the train iofi Char lotte, a strange woman asked her to care for her boby a few minutes. Tho woman never returned. Mis. Harria had been on a visit to re latives in Rock Hill and was on her re turn homo in Anderson county. She said to a News reporter that ofter leav ing Charlotte about 11 o'clock Saturday night she was rather tired and sleepy and paid little attention to wlm was cs tho train. She noticed, however, ns she first took her sent a handsome young woman with a small baby in her arms occupying a scat j hst in the rear of her. Refore the train had gone very far, Mrs. Hr vris said that this woman came to her and asked her to watch her baby for a few minutes until she re turned. This, Mrs. Karris very kindly consented to do, thinking, of course, the woman would return for the child in a short time. The baby waa then asleep and was noticed until it awoke about a half hour afterwards and began crying. Mrs. Harria quieted the child and wait ed patiently for the return of thc wo man who had left the baby in her charge. Upon reaching Greenville Mrs. Har ris says that the woman had not yet put in hor appearance. She took the baby in her arms together with a grip that had been left on the seat and got oft' the train to spend the remainder of the night here, before leaving for her home on the 0:40 C. & G. train. She was met at the depot by her husband who had come over from Anderson tho afternoon before. Mr. Harris notified the policemen of th?5 lost baby. He said Sunday morn ing just before leaving the city that he had a number of applicants for tho child but that he didn't care to give him up. The little boy was about a year old, with brown eyes, dimples in his cheeks and apparently possessed a very sweet disposition. The valise which Mrs. Harris brought from thc train with her was found to contain a number of tine baby dresses, a milk bottle and every thing necessary for a baby's toilet. Greenville News, 0th inst. Friendship News. Well, Mr. Editor, as we have not seen anything from our thriving little burg lately we will attempt to give you a few dots to let you know that we are alive and fighting "General Green" with all onr might, and think wo will conquer him yet if we can get two or three weeks more of fair weath er. Quite a number of our people attend ed the Union Meeting at Mt. Pisgah laat Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gaillard visited the latter's sister, Mrs. J. P. Mauldin, recently. . Mr. Juy Wilson aud sister, Miss Ma tilda, and cousin, Miss Lucinda Mar tin, visited the family of Mr. A. W. Pickens fourth Sunday. They report a very nice tim?. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hammond visit ed relntives in Hickory Flat last week. Mr. Luther Owen visited in Piedmont last Saturday. Miss Mary Wilson is very sick at this writing. The hum of the thrasher can be heard as it frails out the golden grain, which promises on abundant yield. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Guyton visited the family of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Mul likin recently. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rogers visited the fa Hy of Mr. Shaw Elrod recent ly. News is scarce. BONN IK RESS. Whitefield News. Bessie, the little blind daughter of Mr. R. H. Breazeale, is at home from Cedar Springs, S. C., where oho has been attending school for ten months. She has learned nearly as much as the average child that can see would have learned in the same time. Mrs. W. H. Vaden is visiting her son, Mr. Charley Vaden, who has a very sick child.. Mr. D. R. Mayfield was thc guest of Mr. W. O. Singleton and family Inst Wednesday. Mad dogs arc plentiful in this sec tion. The young ladies arc not trou bled with young men staying late at night, and som J will not even sleep up stairs with the windows raised, they are so afraid of being kidnapped by a mad dog. Mr. John Lockaby, near William ston, had the misfortune to get bis house burned down last Sunday after noon. Mr. W. A. Watson ia preparing to re plant his bottoms, which have been drowned by the extreme wet weather. We are expecting a largo corn shuck ing nt hia ho nee next february. Some ot tho papers have been giving Senator Tillman some heavy blows, bnt ho seems to be Rke a post-tho harder yon hit the steadier he stands. Crops and health are very good at this date-July ?. BLUE JA V. Pot Planta and Cat Flowers for ?ale. Large and small Pa!mn n npcolalty. Mi s. J. F. CllnkBCalea, 242 North Main St. STATE NEWS. - Tho supremo court bas rendered a decision authorizing a dispensary to be established at Prosperity. - Cotton mills, banks and other corporations in Spartanburg county paid $238,438 in semi-annual divi dends the 1st. - Tho first prize for South Caro lina for embroidery work at the Pan American Exposition was awarded to Mrs. C. F. Pechtnan of Johnston. - Congressman J. Wm. Stok?? died at his Lowe near Orangeburg las?. Sat urday morning, after a brief illness, agfd 4^ yssrs. - Arthur J. Knight of Bcnnotts ville has been appointed post?nico in spector for rural mail routes with a salary of $1,200 and $2 a day for ex penses. - Jones Fuller, of Ninety-Six, a graduate of Wofford and Vanderbilt, has been eleotcd professor of English and French in Hendrix college, Con way, Arkansas. - Tillman and MoLaurin will be invited to spoak at Saluda on July, 28th, at the fifth anniversary of the laying of the corner stone of thc Court House. - It is reported that the Hon. W. F. Stevenson, of Cheraw, the present speaker of thc HOUBC of Representa tives, will bo a candidate for attorney general. - Revenue officers destroyed five illicit distilleries and thousands of gallons of beer in tho dark corner of Greenville oounty last week. - H. P. Oalpin, of Ninety-Six, made 920 bushels of wheat on 30 aerea. His tenants made GOO bushels. His oat crop will turn out 1200 to 1500 bushels. - The report of the State dispen sary shows that for the months of March, April and May there was $400} 000 worth of liquor sold lo the citi zens by the State. - Six railroads controlled by the Plant system wero consolidated at Charleston on July 1 into one road, to be known as the Sv.annah, Florida & Western. - Rev. J. W. Tarboux, missonary to Brazil, who is on a visit to his old home in Georgetown, will preach the sermon for the Woman's Missionary oonvention of the Methodist church in Net berry the 17th. - Dr. C. S. Gardner, pastor of tho First Baptist church rf Greenville, has received a call from Graoe church, Riohmond, Va., which he will prob ably accept. His leaving Greenville would be a big loss to that city. - Florence, Darlington and Ches terfield counties have decided *.o bring suit against the Atlantie Coast Line railroad for baok taxes on the Cheraw and Darlington road from 1888 to 1898. The Coast Lice claims the road was exempt. - Eliphas Dawkins, a negro preach er and politician who poured kerosene oil on his wife and held her in the fire until she was burned to death, was tried for the offense at Gaffney and found guilty of murder with a recommendation ti mercy. Just whe.e the element of mercy comes in. is hard to see. - An attempt to wreck the south bound Seaboard Air Line train was mmie last Thursday morning near Abbeville. Tho fish plates of one rail were removed. It remained in place till struck by the sleeper, which was derailed. No one was seriously in jured. The authorities believe re cently discharged employ?es from the Abbeville shops did the work. - Last Friday afternoon in Spar tanburg John D. Collins, proprietor of the Bee Hive store, was mortally wounded by Clifton Gbolston, a boy nineteen years of age. Gbolston went to the store for settlement. Ho had been working for Collins. A row ensued and Collins tried to put him out. GholstOD fired once, the ball striking Collins just below the breast, making a fatal wound. - G. Frank Bamberg has a curios ity at his stable. It is a mare colt whose mother is? mule. This isa freak of n?inre which is very rare. The mother of the colt was bought in the west by Mr. Bamberg last winter a year ago, and the following April gave birth to the colt. The colt is a sorrel marc and can be seen at the stables any time.-Bamberg Herald. - The State reformatory for youth ful convicts has been completed and oooupied. The new institution is located upon the State's Lexington farm, about five miles from Columbia in the "Dutch Fork," near the banks of tho Broad river. While the build ing is not a costly one it is most con veniently arranged, and thc boys are more comfortable than they would be j in the State pi ison itself. The sur roundings are far more conducive of real reformation. - A few nights ago W. D. Flani gan, a merchant at Bowling Green, in York county, heard an explosion in his store, not far away, and upon going to the store and attempting to I enter a revolver was thrust ioto his \ face and he was commanded to take I his head away. He left tue store and returned to his home and called for help. Several neighbors promptly re sponded and appeared with guns. The party hastened to the store, but thc burglars ?gd gone. The interior of the building was wrecked and in great confusion," the money in the safe, about $250, being scattered over the floor, whore it was gathered np by the party, who had struck a light after entering tho building. The explosive had been introduced into the safe through a hole in its top and the door had been blown 12 or 50 feet. The burglars did not get anything. iii:NIERAL NEWS. - Baltimore celebrated the Fourth with a $000,000 fire. - Another gusher has burst forth in Texas, making 13 in all. - A bolt of lightning killed twelve men and a boy in Chicago. - Th ? apple crop in the North and West promises to bc only moderately large. - A $10,000,000 oil cloth combino is being arranged at. Youngstown, Ohio. - It is said that the wheat crop of the NcrthwcBt wilt break the record this year. - President and Mrs. McKinley have left Washington for their homo in Canton. - In Montana three robbers held up a train and scoured $83,000 from the express our. - Civil government in thc Fhilip piues was auspiciously inaugurated on the 4th inst. - A kangaro > ranoh is being plan ned in Ai kaunas-to raise thc animals for their hides. - An 88 year old wife in Paterson, N. J., wants a divorce from her hus band for desertion. - A young school boy of Albany N. Y., got in a temper and shot a companion, then hung himself. - A nogro named Jim Bailey was lynched noar Smithfield, N. C., for assaulting a 14-year-old white girl. - The white and negro miners in Campbell county, Toon., have been rioting and many fatalities are re ported. - Bags of gold, aggregating $30, 000, are missing from tho mint in San Francisco. The robbery is being in vestigated. - Comptroller of the Currency Chas. D. Dawes has resigned. Ile will make the canvass for United States senator in Illinois. - Mrs. W. H. Burnett, of Jasper, Tenn., gave birth to four children June 28th-all doing well. Mrs. Bur nett is also the mother of triplets and twins. - The legislature of Porto Rico has been called in extra session on July 4, to fix the date after whioh free trade will exist with the United States. - The town of Williams, Ariz., was for the third time destroyod by fire last week. It is a railway and lumbering town, and bas about 2,000 inhabitants. - The Homestead hotel at Hot i Springy, Va., was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of about $300,000. I There were many narrow esoapes from death of the inmates. ? - Mr. Louis Lewark, of Currituck county, N. C., has the distinction of being the biggest man in North Caro lina. Louis is only 17 years old and tipsjtho scales at 690. - People are securing oil options - about Elberton, Ga. It is said that oil has been discovered in the Broad river section of that county and that a com pany will soon begin to sink a woll. - On the 14th inst., at Muskegon, Mich., Frank Tazelow was killed while making a parachute drop. Ho foll 1,000 feet, dropping into Muskegon lake. Thousands saw tho accident. - The biggest chunk of granite ever quarried in this country has just been split from the ledge in a Bockland, Me., quarry. It is 325 feet long, 50 feet wide, 38 feet thiok, and is esti mated to weigh 52,000 tons. - The trustees of the first Metho dist churoh at Omaha have passed a resolution forbidding women to wear hats during the hour of service, decry ing fancy headgear as an impediment to the attainment of Godliness. - America's wheat crop this year is estimated at 700,000,000 bushels. The average for former years has been 500,000,000, the average yearly ex portation has been 200.000,000 the average yearly price per bushel 72cts. - A young lady of Indian Terri tory who was reproved by a minister from the pulpit for speaking to her escort during a long sermon was so depressed by the unpleasant notoriety that she took a dose of carbolio acid and killed herself. - Tho intense heat that has pre vailed in New York and other North ern cities and that has been so de structive to human life has abated somewhat because of rain. In New York there were 600 deaths from the heat in six days. - Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland died in Washington on Sunday aged 8G. He was pastor of the First Presby terian church for 48 yoars and retired in 1808 on account of his agc. It was he who married President and Mrs. Cleveland in 1885. - There is no yellow fever in Ha vana this year. Science has found that tho female mosquito transmits this disease, and by sprinkling all drains, sewers &c, with kerosene a plague of mosquitoes has been pre vented, and, consequently, yellow fever was stamped out. - At Eau Claire, Wisconsin, light ning struck tho menagerie te'jt at Wafiaoe Brothers1 circus. 0:<e ele phant was killed and two others severely sbooked. The surviving ele phants endeavored touring the dead ono round by striking her with their trunks and putting hay in her mouth. - At Lynn, Mass., two weddings were in progress in tho samo churoh. The building was crowded. While the two orienta were performing the ceremony the building was struck by lightning and stones and timber were hurled around in a general way. A panic followed and the marriages were interrupted. JL1 VI X?t Another Story of an Old Greenville Tragedy. .EDITORS INTBLMOENCER: The ?tory of the Yancey-Karie tragedy in G roon ville many years ago, which appeared in the Birmingham Age Herald recently and which TUB INTELLIGENCES copied last week,.does not tally with the Hcconnt contained in DUI?OHO'H "Life and Times of William L. Yancey" ia several very important particulars. Du Bose got ht* fdcte rclati?K tu the homicide and the trial of Yancey from the tile? of the Greenville Mountaineer. ;'.on i a in m V, Perry was in charge of the paper at the time, and he doubtlese wrote the ac count* from which DuBosedrew. The record an it appear? in the "The Life and Times of William L. Yancey," a highly valuable contribution to the history of the country, by the way, may, therefore, be accopted as authentic. Yancey was scholarly, talented, one of the finest orators our country has pro duced, prolific as she has been of these, and I believe he was thoroughly patri otic. He has been much misrepresented and consequently much misunderstood* It hAB been bruited all the years, the cur ren i not in motion by unfriendly tongues, that Yancey ian off to Alabama imme diately after the tragedy, as if to escape the frowns of an outraged public, bat the facts are that he had been a resident of Alabama for full two year" prior tn the unfortunate affair. Below ia what Mr. Du Bone says, and the reader ls asked to compare it with tho version which appeared last week. W. A. DICKSON? Broylee, S. C., .Inly 8,1901. "Mr. Yanoey removed his family and his slaves to Alabama the year after his marriage, spent the winters there in the oversight of his cotton plantation and re turned with bis family to spend the Bum mers Dear Greenville for the sake of health. "It wonld be taneceassry to relate here with particularity a deplorable acci dent which befell bim, save that, in the heat of political conflict in after years, bitter speech was made and mueh error waa written ot it. Early in September, 1838, he rode to the muster of a militia company twelve miles from Greenville, where, after the military exercises, it was expected a debate would be held between General Waddy Thompson and Judge Joseph N. Whltner, candidates for the lower House of Congress. After the debate ended gentlemen, In coteries, standing' on the ground discussed the prospects of the candidates, Yancey's re? marks so displeased a youth of seventeen, a nephew of General Thompson, and ? oonsln of Mrs. Yancy, Elias Earle, that he replied in a rude speech, for which offence Yancey boxed his face. Elias re turned the single blow with one or more strokes of his riding whip. Bystanders at once stopped the difficulty. Ellas be came pacified and Yancey then spoke to him kindly, advising him to tell his uncle what had been said, adding : 'I did not Intend to fight you, Elias, but only to chastise your impudence; I wonld rather give you Salvador (a favorite saddle horse) than to have a personal difficulty with you.' Dr. Robinson M. Earle, father of Ellas, and uncle of Mrs. Yan cey, several dayB after tho occurrence, and sf tor he bad assured Yancey that If his son had acted with spirit In tho affair be was content, attacked Ysncey on the porch of a store at Greenville with a sec tion of the handle of a grain oradle as a weapon. Yancey, at the outset, began to rotreat, step by step, still facing his an tagonist and warning him repeatedly, as if reluctant to defend himself by the use of the weapon he carried. His hat had been knocked off, his shirt bosom torn open and he had been forced to the ex treme edge of the porch, some two cr three feet above the Rround. He then fired and mortally wounded his antag onist in the lea side. Dr. Earle was six feet high and weighed two hundred pounds, and deolared on tho upot, 'Had Yancey not fired I would have easily whipped him.' "The casa was put on trial at the term of the Circuit Court nt Greenville. The jury brought lu a verdict of manslaugh ter. During the seventeen oonseoativa hours in which the trial progressed tb prisoner retained perfect repote, nelthb. e la ted when the evidence was in hm favor nor cast dows t/hon it appeared to go against him. The universal testimony was that Yanoey had never before been In any personal difficulty in O roon vi) lo; that he was uniformly polite and quiet; that he had a very high aenBe of personal honor; that he had not provoked the trouble with Dr. Earle; that the knife and bludgeon that Earle carried when the attack waa made were in the hands of the deceased threateningly presented when the shot waa fired from Yancey's pistol. "October 20, following, the prisoner was brought before the Court, Joalah J. Erans presiding, for sentence. The J udge Bald tho crowded state of the house indicated an unusual interest in the duty before him, and he would depart from his ordinary rulo of brevity in such cases to explain his mind. The prisoner's de portment, he said, since the affray ou the muster ground up to the moment of the difficulty with Dr. Earle, wassuoh as was to be expected from one in his station of life. No ope could believe that he had Ene to that piazza with any hostile feel g toward Dr. Earle, or that he carried there the pistol that was in his bosom for the purpose of shooting the unfortunate deceased. The Court could impute to him sc moral gail*, what happened there seamed to be entirely accidental and to be attributed to tho angry and ex oited deportment of Dr. Earle. The Judge explained further that Mr. Yanoey seemed to have worn his pistol in Green ville, because of habit acquired in carry ing lt while passing through the indian country of tho West. Ia consideration of this practice tho Court had made up Ita judgment. The sentence was?21,500 fino andi twelve months imprisonment in jail. "Governor Patrick Noble remitted two thirds of the fino and released the pris oner. -Mr. Yanoey then returned with his lani My to Alabama."